September 30-October 4

LANGUAGE ARTS 7:
On Monday, we'll wrap up our rotation assignments in citing evidence to support inferences and generalizations. We will have a whole-class wrap-up on Tuesday with a quiz on Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, we'll begin our third and final mini-unit in key ideas and details which will have us looking at how elements of nonfiction text affect each other.

1. Independent: Study Island for inferences practice
2. Small Group: "Two Days with No Phone"
3. Guided Instruction: "Man on the Moon"
4. SSR: Make an inference or a generalization about your character and/or a subject in the text.

CAREER EXPLORATIONS:
Monday and Tuesday of this week we will be working on a lesson plan assignment for the education career cluster. On Wednesday and Thursday, we will look at the marketing and business career clusters and get hands-on experience by creating a subscription box. Friday will take us into hospitality and tourism cluster and we will work on creating a three-day tour of Schuylkill County.

September 23-27

LANGUAGE ARTS 7:
We got a little backed up this week, so this we'll begin working with citing evidence to support inferences and generalizations. Monday will be spent learning how to complete test and/or quiz corrections. The remainder of the week, we will be working in our four rotation assignments:

1. Independent: Study Island for inferences practice
2. Small Group: "Two Days with No Phone"
3. Guided Instruction: "Man on the Moon"
4. SSR: Make an inference or a generalization about your character and/or a subject in the text.

Plan on a citing evidence to support inferences and generalizations quiz on Wednesday, October 2.

CAREER EXPLORATIONS:
On Monday, we'll put Gold E. Locks on trial for breaking and entering at the Bears' home. This trial will continue into Tuesday. We'll take the second half of Tuesday's class to review the Human Services career cluster. Wednesday and Thursday will be spent looking at the government and public administration cluster where we will create our own constitution. Friday will introduce the education cluster with a guest speaker.

September 16-20

LANGUAGE ARTS 7:
We got a little backed up this week, so this week we'll continue with central idea and objective summary. Monday will be spent practicing writing objective summaries. The remainder of the week, we will be working in our four rotation assignments:

1. Indepenent: Study Island for summarization practice
2. Small Group: "Forest Fires Burning in the Amazon Raise Concerns"
3. Guided Instruction: "Barbara Morgan, Teacher and Astronaut"
4. SSR: What is the central idea of your reading?

We will review as a whole class and wrap-up loose ends with rotation assignments on Thursday. There will be a quiz on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

CAREER EXPLORATIONS:
On Monday, we'll review the STEM Career Cluster and spend the remainder of the class as well as Tuesday's class dabbling with computer programming use Code.org. Wednesday will take us into health services and we'll be doing some work with disease and injury diagnoses on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday we will focus on Law Enforcement and Public Safety with a few guest speakers before we enter into a trial next week.

September 9-13

LANGUAGE ARTS 7:
This week, we will start working on our first big unit: Key Ideas and Details in Informational Text. We'll start off with central idea and objective summary. Monday will be a whole class review of central idea while working through rotations covering word grouping, relevancy, and order and sequence. Tuesday will be spent practicing writing objective summaries. The remainder of the week, we will be working in our four rotation assignments:

1. Indepenent: Study Island for summarization practice
2. Small Group: "Forest Fires Burning in the Amazon Raise Concerns"
3. Guided Instruction: "Barbara Morgan, Teacher and Astronaut"
4. SSR: What is the central idea of your reading?

There will be a quiz on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 

CAREER EXPLORATIONS:
On Monday, we will continue working on the public busing problem activity covering the transportation career cluster. Tuesday and Wednesday will be spent in the architecture and construction cluster with a hands-on project completed in class in which students will be redesigning the blueprints for Knoebel's Haunted Mansion. Thursday and Friday will be spent in the manufacturing cluster with students working on designing a car with a culminating race on Friday.